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Christmas Cantata:
ONE SILENT NIGHT
This Sunday
11:00 a.m.

From Isaiah’s prophecies of the coming Messiah to Luke’s and Matthew’s accounts of His birth, the Celebration Choir will tell the story of Emmanuel, God With Us.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness:“Prepare the way of the Lord;Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.Every valley shall be exaltedAnd every mountain and hill brought low;The crooked places shall be made straightAnd the rough places smooth;The glory of the Lord shall be revealed,And all flesh shall see it together;For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
–Isaiah 40:3-5

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Started in 1888, and named for Charlotte (“Lottie”) Moon, missionary to China, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering was established to empower the international missions efforts for Southern Baptists. Your prayers and gifts will help the gospel continue to resound throughout the nations as you send and sustain missionaries and their work. Click here for stories of missionaries working in Mozambique, Italy, South America, Ghana, Norway, South Africa, and Southeast Asia, along with specific requests to pray over.

100% of your gift to the Lottie Moon Offering goes toward supporting missions and missionaries. Envelopes for this offering are in the pew racks.

Matthew’s ChildMatthew’s Child is a local organization supporting the foster and adoptive community in the Roanoke Valley. We are collecting items for infants, children, and teens. See the December newsletter or the donation box outside the church office for more information.

Offering Envelopes
2017 offering envelopes are available on the pew outside the sanctuary. Please stop by and pick up yours. If you did not receive envelopes and would like a box, leave your name on the list and check back next week.

Back Creek Outreach
Don’t forget to save your Box Tops for Education labels for Back Creek. These labels are on many grocery items such as General Mills cereal, Betty Crocker baking mixes, Bisquick mixes, Green Giant vegetables, Progresso soups, Nature Valley bars, Pillsbury biscuits, Lysol cleaners, and Ziploc, Kleenex, and Hefty products. You can put your labels in the cardboard church outside the office.

Children’s Choir:
TODAY A SAVIOR IS BORN
Sunday, December 4
11:00 a.m.

He is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace! Our children’s choir will sing and ring the good news of the Savior’s birth during morning worship this Sunday.

The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”–Luke 2:10-11

For each of the next several weeks our Sunday morning services will special and unique. Each week as we progress through Advent in anticipation of Christmas will be filled with special opportunities for worship. From the children’s choir to a special Christmas Day service, you will not want to miss any of these opportunities.

This Sunday our Children’s Choir will lead us in worship. This is always a special and fun time as we get to witness the enthusiasm of young children as they sing praises to God. Then in the last part of our service we will have a Deacon ordination. This is a special time in the life of the church and the life of the Deacon as we set him apart for ministry in the church. What a great combination service this will be as the children lead us in worship and then we set apart leaders to lead them into the future! Let me encourage you to read Act 6.1-7 in preparation for Sunday. This passage helps us to understand the need and the role of the Deacon in the early church and by extension our church today.